Biography

Early life

Sizemore was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a mother who was a member of an urban ombudsman staff and a lawyer/psychology professor father, Thomas Edward Sizemore, Sr.[1] He has a younger brother, Paul, who is also an actor and a niece Beverly who is a songwriter and former Pussycat Doll. Sizemore attended Michigan State University for one year, as well as Wayne State University, and earned a Master's Degree in theater from Temple University in 1986. He subsequently moved to New York City to pursue an acting career.

Career

One of Sizemore's early film roles was in Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July in 1989. He has appeared in films such as Lock Up (1989), Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991), True Romance (1993), Natural Born Killers (1994) and Strange Days (1995). He had a supporting role in Kevin Costner's Wyatt Earp as Bat Masterson. A succession of well-received supporting parts followed, perhaps the most well known being his portrayal of Michael Cheritto in Heat (1995). His first major leading role was as Vincent D'Agosta in 1997's The Relic.

Sizemore had a recurring role on the television series China Beach (1988 to 1991) as an enlisted man named Charlie who was in love with Dana Delaney's character.

Sizemore continued to play leading and character parts in many films, notably Bringing out the Dead, Saving Private Ryan, Witness Protection, Red Planet, Pearl Harbor, Devil in a Blue Dress, and Black Hawk Down. He had a voice part as Sonny Forelli in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. In 2001, Sizemore starred in Ticker, an action film directed by Albert Pyun, with Steven Seagal and Dennis Hopper. In 2002, Sizemore starred in the well-reviewed but short-lived television drama series Robbery Homicide Division. It was cancelled mid-way through its first season. He also played an undercover cop in the film Swindle opposite Sherilyn Fenn.

Sizemore fronted the Hollywood rock band Day 8. Formed in 2002, the band recorded a 4-song EP produced and recorded by former Snot/Soulfly guitarist Mikey Doling. The group included Rod Castro, Alan Muffterson, Tyrone Tomke and Michael Taylor.

In 2004 he starred in Paparazzi and in the 2006 he starred in The Genius Club, playing a terrorist who taunts seven geniuses into solving the world's problems in one night.

In 2007, the television network VH1 aired a six episode reality TV series called Shooting Sizemore, which depicted the life of the actor as he struggled to regain his career in the midst of a continuing battle with addiction. The series also covered an ongoing legal appeal on his conviction for an assault of former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss.Recent films include Red and American Son, both of which were screened at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. In 2008, Sizemore starring also The Last Lullaby, playing a killer, and appeared also in The Flyboys with Stephen Baldwin; In 2009 appared in comedy film Super Capers and starring alongside martial arts actor Mark Dacascos in the action movie Shadows in Paradise (2009).